How Federal agencies Benefit from the American Technology Preeminence Act (ATPA)

Sending your information to NTIS will:

• Assist your agency in the management of your information products.
• Help your agency reach the scientific and business communities that need and depend on your information
• Store, process, produce, and distribute your information products.
• Market your agency's products through a network of promotional and announcement media.
• Create searchable bibliographic records of your information products (fully indexed and abstracted).
• Manage your subscription products (e.g., keep address lists up to date, distribute renewal notices, handle invoices and payments).
• Store your information so it will be available for future reference.
• Reduce your agency's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) workload by allowing you to refer your FOIA requests to NTIS for fulfillment.
• Include your information products with other agencies' at the Homeland Security Information Center at NTIS.
• Make your information available through the National Technical Reports Library

Responsibilities of Federal Agencies for the Transfer of Scientific, Technical, and Engineering Information to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) under the American Technology Preeminence Act (ATPA)

Public Law 102-245, Section 108
American Technology Preeminence Act of 1991
(15 U.S.C. 3704b-2)